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Quantum Computers Pose Imminent Threat to Bitcoin Security (technologyreview.com)
14 points by dreamcompiler on April 20, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments


Although the article mentions the QC threat to all encryption schemes, it's clickbait to just single out Bitcoin in the title.


Considering the original paper's[1] name "Quantum attacks on Bitcoin, and how to protect against them" I wouldn't call this clickbait.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.10377


Point taken. Merci.


Quantum supremacy is 10-15 years out (from what I’ve heard). Is it normal for people to be worried about threats so far out? We don’t even know if Bitcoin will exist then; only concern would be the cryptography that underpins it which is a greater issue.




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